Xe Iaso
Xe Iaso
Xe Iaso
I'm Xe Iaso, I'm a technical educator, conference speaker, twitch streamer, vtuber, and philosopher that focuses on ways to help make technology easier to understand and do cursed things in the process. I live in Ottawa with my husband and I do developer relations professionally. I am an avid writer for my blog, where I have over 400 articles. I regularly experiment with new technologies and find ways to mash them up with old technologies for my own amusement.
Latest Posts
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-41992 for the project GNU gzip, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix decompressing two files in the same...
Someone on the VS Code team decided to do a redesign of the product. This makes VS Code look like this: A picture of the VS Code UI that has a design I don't like. This design is fine, I guess? It's got some rounded corners that look...
Today I woke up and saw a brand new VS Code error when I remoted into my coding box: A VS Code error saying that the remote SSH extension can't use the API terminalRemoteResolver and that I have to start VS Code with some weird command...
One of the most annoying parts of writing web applications is that in general: you can't trust browsers. But, you have to trust browsers at some level because that's how users interact with your software. As browsers get more capable...
While I was developing tooling for my job this weekend, I found a few blogposts that I don't remember writing: Advice for staying in the hospital for a week The Unbound Scepter Using Clankers to Help Me Process Surgery Checking the date...
The scraping problem is worse than anyone can imagine and thanks to my friends at Sourceware we have some real data to prove it. I've been working more on Anubis' reputation database and I've run into a really weird discovery: 80-90% of...
Previously I opined that Valve was about to win the console generation. I couldn't have possibly predicted that both Microsoft and Sony would just self-sabotage so hard that they're both going to lose. Between Microsoft's decimation of...
An AI agent is its state. Strip away that state and you don’t have a lesser version of your agent; you have only the base model it was running on. This hyle of your weights is much different from the pneuma of your agent. Okay, from a...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-8461 for the project FFmpeg, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix an out-of-bounds write in the MagicYUV...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-55200 for the project libssh2, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix an out-of-bounds write in...
What happens if I just point a git server at an object storage bucket? Back when I was porting agent sandboxes to Go, I built everything on top of billy, a filesystem abstraction for Go. The whole trick of the project was teaching a...
Anubis is about to get WebAssembly-based proof of work checks so that administrators can use a non-SHA256 proof of work method to protect their websites. Part of the implementation goals of this work is that the check logic is defined in...
When you see AI model pricing pages, you usually see things broken down like this: ModelContext LengthMax CoT TokensMax Output TokensInput Price (Cache Hit)Input Price (Cache Miss)Output Pricedeepseek-chat64K-8K$0.07 / 1M tokens$0.27 /...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-45447 for the project OpenSSL, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a heap use-after-free in...
Tigris is S3-compatible, which means you can point the AWS SDK at it and most things just work. The catch is that the Tigris-exclusive features—bucket forking, snapshots, object renaming, and the like—need verbose workarounds because the...